Rottenegg Castle

Castle ruins Rottenegg today

The ruins Rottenegg is located on a hill in the district Rottenegg the municipality in the district of St. Gotthard Urfahr in Upper Austria Upper Austria. The castle was first mentioned in the 13th century for the first time and is now privately owned.

Location

The ruins of a small, former hill fort is situated on the advanced Outcrop of a steep hill near the center of Rottenegg the confluence of the Little and Big Rodl at an altitude of 310 m above sea level. A..

Name

The name part MHG red ( = red) may indicate a coloring of the local rock, but could also refer to the color of the former building paint. Mhd. harrow, eck ( = corner) describes a projecting laterally sloping terrain edge. The common in the Middle Ages dativische use of place names led to today's contracted place names, for the case with double -t -established: ( to) the red corner - Rottenegg

Description

Get today are almost exclusively the outer walls of the palace of the former north side of the castle. The once three-storey building has no false ceilings more and leaves on the inner walls still visible remains of stucco and frescoes. From the former donjon of the curtain wall and the farm buildings still bear witness to isolated remnants of walls. The former gatehouse, however, is well preserved and is still inhabited today. A legend that revolves around the castle is depicted in a sgraffito on a house below the ruins. It explains why the castle wall is colored red.

History

The first known owner of the castle Rottenegg brothers Chunrat and Sighart occur on July 25, 1285, the P (B) iber of Rotenek on. The male line of the family branch of the Rottenegger Piber died with Otto II from around 1340. His daughter married Dietmut Herrmann of Landsberg in possession passed the castle. 1363, the property was handed over to the sons Ruger and Berengar of Landsberg. Thereafter, the owner or fief owner changed several times: in 1375 the castle was to the Lords of Walsee 1377 to Rudolf Neundling as (purchase fief ), after the extinction of Walseer to the Habsburgs ( owned), 1489 to Balthasar Neundlinger ( fief ), 1494 about his wife Agnes Greisenegger to the old man Ecker family. In the 16th century the castle was rebuilt by the Gingern 1586 she came by inheritance to the Künast family, a few years later to purchase Christoph Artstetter of Wartberg. In 1600, the castle was rebuilt into a chateau. 1606 the castle came to Jobst Schmidt Auer von Oberwallsee and Etzelsdorf 1712 sold Franz Veit von Schmidt Auer Castle to the Earl Thomas Gundaker of Star Hemberger.

• Castle ruins Rottenegg
• Palace of the castle ruins Rottenegg
• Castle ruins Rottenegg: castle wall
• Gatehouse
• Legend of the castle ruins Rottenegg

The rule Rottenegg was pooled at the time of starhembergischen tenure with the reign Eschelberg and first administered by a nurse. The castle was abandoned but still the early 18th century by the staff, put poor people as apartment and eventually left to decay. Since 1936, the plant is owned by the Plakolm family.

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